Personal Yummy #101
An exquisite Florida Thursday in early June, sunny and peaceful and breezy, the wind chimes jingling and emitting their Zen-like vibes, the palm trees rustling, the lake water glistening.
Later, the intense and bewildering shades in the sky—yellows, pinks, and oranges—amid the setting sun, observable through the accordion glass wall separating the spacious living room from the cozy lanai.
And the next day, mystifyingly beautiful too.
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What would it be like to be a bird-of-paradise in sunny Venice, Florida?
Like any other beauty, I assume.
Unique. Gorgeous. Unusual.
Admired and envied.
The focus of many.
As Rose (Barbra Streisand) asks her mother, Hannah (Lauren Bacall), in The Mirror Has Two Faces—one of my most favorite movies—“How did it feel? Being beautiful?”
The bird-of-paradise is adorned in bright orange and blue, with sturdy, abundant green leaves and stalks.
It is exotic, tropical, regal…
Complex.
And it makes you feel that way when you regard it, especially if you’ve rarely encountered it before.
But—no matter what you think of it … or others think of it—it is beautiful because it knows it’s so.
That’s right.
Just like the rest of us.
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